WATANABE Yôji

渡邊洋治 (1923 – 1983)

Japanese architect who was called the architect of madness and heresy. He was famous for his drawings of competition proposals, which were done with black magic pens and blackened backgrounds | 1923 born in Jôetsu City, Niigata prefecture | 1941 graduates at “Takada College of Technology”, works for a steel company | 1947 joins architectural firm KUME SEKKEI | 1959 graduates from second study at “Waseda University”; founds his own architectural office | 1970 completes the “New Sky Building No. 3”, which is reminiscent of the capsule architecture of KUROKAWA Kishô | 1983 died